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Database Management Solutions
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Database Management
Managing the Changing Database EnvironmentOrganizations today are challenged by delivering tangible business value from their database investments. Adding to
this challenge is the constant change inherent in complex, often heterogeneous environments. From application and
platform changes to increased user activity, such changes place added stress on both the database environment and the
professionals charged with ensuring their peak performance.
Quest Software provides the breadth and depth of technical expertise required to meet the challenges presented by an
ever-changing IT landscape.
As the industry-leading provider of heterogeneous database management solutions, Quest empowers database
professionals to develop new applications and improve existing ones. And our renowned database experts provide best
practices and proven techniques to help organizations maximize efficiency throughout the database lifecycle.
Quest database management solutions span multiple platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL and Sybase,
to deliver the functionality that database managers, administrators, developers and analysts need to be more productive.
Analysts Rank Quest #1 in Database Management
Quest solutions empower database professionals to:
• Plan and develop applications that deliver both functionality and optimal performance
• Optimize the database with automated tuning technology
• Validate that databases will scale with future end-user requirements before deployment
Database professionals who use Quest solutions can minimize time to deployment, meet service level agreements, reduce costs and optimize performance.
Quest solutions also provide an objective view of the entire database environment, so database professionals can efficiently resolve issues and ensure
availability. They have the tools needed to:
• Discover performance issues in production before they impact end users and service levels
• Diagnose the root cause of even the most complex performance bottlenecks
• Resolve performance problems regardless of skill set
• Administer the database effortlessly, including data backup and recovery
With Quest’s industry-leading development and administration tools, such as Toad®, Foglight®, Spotlight® and LiteSpeed, you have the control you need over
your database environment. And you have the power to improve database quality, productivity and performance.
Quest Solutions for Database Management Deliver Code Quality and Optimization
Toad®
Toad is the de facto standard for developers, DBAs and analysts. Toad increases productivity and application code quality, while providing an interactive
community to support the user experience. Toad is available for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and MySQL.
Benchmark Factory® for Databases
Benchmark Factory is a database performance and code scalability testing tool that simulates users and transactions on the database and replays
production workload in non-production environments. Developers, DBAs and QA teams can validate that their databases will scale as user load increases
and that application and platform changes have been implemented. Benchmark Factory is available for Oracle, SQL Server,
DB2, Sybase, MySQL and other databases via ODBC connectivity.
Quest® Code Tester for Oracle
Quest Code Tester for Oracle creates successful code for Oracle development groups. Rather than painstakingly writing
large amounts of test code, developers can generate it easily from user descriptions, then run tests with the press of a
button. Success or failure is automatically computed and presented to users via an easy-to-understand red light/green light
display. The result is that Quest Code Tester for Oracle integrates PL/SQL testing directly into development as a repeatable,
verifiable process.
SQL Navigator® for Oracle
SQL Navigator is a PL/SQL development tool that streamlines workflow by adding a drag-and-drop graphical user
interface to the PL/SQL development environment.
Quest® SQL Optimizer for Oracle
Quest SQL Optimizer offers a fully automated approach to maximizing SQL performance. It eliminates the manual, time-
intensive process of ensuring SQL code is performing as fast as possible.
Manage Performance and Availability
Foglight®
Foglight is a powerful application management solution that monitors every tier in the application technology stack,
including databases, networks, application servers and Web servers, alerting administrators to problems before they
impact end users. Foglight supports Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase.
Spotlight®
Spotlight is a powerful and graphically rich diagnostics tool that accurately isolates database performance
problems in real time and visually displays all database activity in an intuitive user interface.
Spotlight ensures faster problem detection and resolution without the need to rely on
customized scripts or cumbersome utilities. Spotlight integrates with other Quest
products, such as SQL Optimizer and Benchmark Factory, and is available for
Oracle, Oracle RAC, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase and MySQL.
Quest® Performance Analysis
Performance Analysis offers a comprehensive solution for diagnosing
and tuning database workloads. Through advanced diagnostic features
and specially designed interfaces, Performance Analysis transforms
performance management into a faster, easier and more efficient
experience. Performance Analysis is available for Oracle and SQL Server.
Space Manager for Oracle
Space Manager is a comprehensive solution for optimizing capacity and
performance in Oracle databases. Its powerful reorganization, problem detection and
capacity planning tools help maximize existing storage resources with minimal impact on
applications and users.
Solutions for D atabase Managem
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Spotlight has definitely saved us many
times. All of the DBAs at our company
use Spotlight on a daily basis to verify
that everything is running fine or to see
how any changes made have helped
improve a system’s performance.
The biggest advantage for us is that
it all works together. It integrates
everything we have to do, and the tools
themselves bring tremendous expertise
to our group. Our productivity has
definitely increased.
– Graham Houghton Data Architect
Lafarge
As a result of the fantastic time savings,
we instantly got more value from our
SAP consultants. I would say that from
the time savings alone, LiteSpeed for
SQL Server easily paid for itself within
the first week.
– Richard Hawkins Data Architect
Motability Operations Services
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SharePlex® for Oracle
SharePlex provides a fault-tolerant replica of Oracle databases to ensure high availability and disaster recovery,
eliminate risks associated with migrations, improve performance of OLTP systems and optimize business intelligence
applications.
Quest® Capacity Manager for SQL Server
Capacity Manager provides a complete portrait of storage requirements with easily interpreted reports, charts and
graphs. A consolidated view permits management and control of all databases and data files from a single interface.
Growth of instances, databases and objects can be plotted, enabling evaluation of the most storage resource-
intensive portions of an architecture, and over-allocated space can be reclaimed from databases.
LiteSpeed™ for SQL Server
LiteSpeed is a fast and flexible backup and recovery solution that offers centralized reporting and industry-leading
compression technology.
Manage Change and Configuration
Toad® Data Modeler
Toad Data Modeler enables developers, DBAs and designers to create,
maintain and document quality database designs and structures across more
than 20 different platforms.
Change Director for SQL Server
Change Director provides complete control over
every aspect of database schema changes across your SQL Server
environment.
Security Control and Audit Management
InTrust® for Databases
InTrust for Databases is a database audit management product that
ensures corporate database assets remain secure by providing real-time,
detailed notification of such events as intrusion detection, data theft and
data fraud.
Solutions for D atabase Managem
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Previous reorg tasks required
application downtime. However, Space
Manager enabled us to perform the
task without system downtime. In
addition to such convenience, SAP R/3-
related service speed has also improved
by more than 40 percent through the
reorg task.
– Dongjik Park Advisory Engineer, Samsung SDS
Samsung Electronics Co.
Toad improves productivity for both
our developers and DBAs. Thanks to
automated tools like Toad, developers
and DBAs can operate more efficiently
and independent of one another to
quickly analyze problems and tune the
databases.
– Brian Christensen Director of IT Business Systems
Cisco Systems
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AwardsSQL Server Magazine Editor’s Choice Awards (August 2007)
LiteSpeed for SQL Server - Platinum award winner, Backup and Recovery
Spotlight on SQL Server - Platinum award winner, Database Monitoring Tools
Quest Central for SQL Server - Gold award winner, Database Management Tools
Quest Performance Analysis for SQL Server - Best Database Development and Administration product
“Attendee’s Pick” award at Microsoft TechEd (June 2007) Quest Software - Microsof Global ISV Partner of the Year (2007, 2004)
SQL Server Magazine Editor’s Choice Awards (August 2006)LiteSpeed for SQL Server — Platinum award winner, Backup and Remote/Disaster Recovery
SQL Turbo — Platinum award winner, Database Development
Speed Coefficient® 2.0 — Gold award winner, Performance and Monitoring
Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise — Best Database Development and Administration Product
“Best of TechEd” competition, sponsored by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server magazines (June 2006)
Spotlight on SQL Server — Preferred Product, Best SQL Tool category, “Readers’ Choice Awards 2006,”
sponsored by Redmond Magazine (May 2006)
LiteSpeed for SQL Server — Gold award winner, General Database Utilities category, TechTarget
“Products of the Year” competition (January 2006)
SQL Server Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards (September 2005)Quest Central® for SQL Server Performance Analysis — Best New Product (Rookie of the Year)
and Best Database Monitoring/Analysis Software
LiteSpeed for SQL Server — Most Innovative Product, Best Database Backup/Recovery/Archive Software
and Best Data Encryption Tool
Speed SQL IDE — Best Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Speed Change Manager — Best Change and Configuration Management Tool
and Best Comparison and Synchronization Tool
Speed Coefficient — Best Database Performance-Tuning Tool
Quest Central for SQL Server — Winner in the Data Management Solutions category, “Best of TechEd Europe”
competition, sponsored by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server magazines (August 2005)
Quest Software — MySQL Partner of the Year 2005 (April 2005)
Toad® for Oracle 8.0 — Jolt Productivity Award in Business Integration and Data Tools category (March 2005)
Database Experts at Quest SoftwareQuest is home to several industry experts whose knowledge and experience help us develop innovative products
that meet the needs of database professionals worldwide. These experts are active in the IT community, sharing best
Johannes Ahrends, Oracle Expert
Mike Ault, Oracle Expert
Douglas Chrystall, SQL Server Expert
Claudia Fernandez, SQL Server/DB2/Oracle/Sybase Expert
Steven Feuerstein, Oracle PL/SQL Expert
David Gugick, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Guy Harrison, Oracle and MySQL Expert
Kevin Kline, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Patrick O’Keefe, SQL Server Expert
Gary Piper, Oracle Expert
Bryan Oliver, SQL Server Domain Expert
Bert Scalzo, Toad for Oracle, Data Warehousing and Data Modeling Expert
Jeff Smith, Toad Expert
Jim Wankowski, DB2 Expert
Delivering Business Value from Your Database Investments
Quest Software can help your organization deliver, manage and control complex database
environments. Our award-winning products for Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and
MySQL give you the power to improve database quality, productivity and performance. They
help you deliver tangible business value by minimizing time to deployment, meeting service
level agreements, reducing costs and optimizing performance.
About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations
get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments.
Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 90,000
customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers with client management as well
as server and desktop virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries, ScriptLogic, Vizioncore and Provision Networks. Quest
Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.
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